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Twenty-first century grandparents: global perspectives on changing roles and consequences
The Role of Grandparents in the 21st Century, 2018 This special issue on Grandparents highlights the increasing role that they are taking in raising the next generation, not only in the United Kingdom, but across the world. Why are grandparents playing a major role in rearing the next generation? Firstly,
A. Buchanan, A. Rotkirch
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The role of mating effort and co-residence history in step-grandparental investment
Evolutionary Human SciencesThe prevalence of divorce in both parental and grandparental generations has led to a rise in the number of children who now have families that include both biological and step-grandparents.
Jenni E. Pettay +3 more
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Predictors of grandparental investment decisions in contemporary Europe: biological relatedness and beyond. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Across human cultures, grandparents make a valued contribution to the health of their families and communities. Moreover, evidence is gathering that grandparents have a positive impact on the development of grandchildren in contemporary industrialized ...
David A Coall +2 more
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Papers, 2012 Contrary to the idea that kinship support declines with modernisation, it may be a key resource in the transition from a traditional male breadwinner family to a dual-earner model, either as a substitute of working mothers or as a complement in addition ...
Constanza Tobío Soler
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Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Kinship is a fundamental and universal aspect of the structure of human society. The kinship category of ‘grandparents’ is socially salient, owing to grandparents’ investment in the care of the grandchildren as well as to older generations’ control of ...
Catherine Sheard +3 more
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Are grandparents raising grandchildren receiving the services they need?
Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 2021 Grandparents play an important role in the upbringing of grandchildren and face increased levels of stress. Using family stress theory, the present study examined the effectiveness of service programs for grandparents raising grandchildren.
Karleah Harris +3 more
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Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2019 To examine the relationship between grandparenting styles and grandchildren’s emotions and behaviors, while controlling for parenting styles, and to compare the effects of grandparenting styles and parenting styles on children’s behavioral problems in ...
Yuli Li +4 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To characterize the demographic, clinical, and laboratory features of the Chinese patients of genetic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease with T188K variant (T188K‐gCJD), the most common subtype of genetic prion diseases (gPrDs) in China. Methods In this nationwide retrospective study, data from 98 genetically confirmed T188K‐gCJD patients ...
Chun‐Jie Li +11 more
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Social SciencesThere has been a growing trend of young people coming out as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) in recent years. Research on the relationship between LGBTQ grandchildren and their grandparents is limited and primarily focuses on the ...
Ahuva Even-Zohar +3 more
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Grandchildren and Their Grandparents' Labor Supply
Social Science Research Network, 2018 We study how becoming a grandparent affects grandparents’ labor supply. In a simple model of the allocation of time in which seniors care about their offspring’s welfare and also value time spent with family children, the sign of the effect is ambiguous.
Peter Rupert, G. Zanella
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